[pjmlp]

Looks very robotic to me, never worked on a place where meetings and dealing with other humans wasn't part of the job.

[Retric]

I’ve been on plenty of teams where meetings didn’t actually require any meaningful participation from most people.

[nuancebydefault]

Meetings without any meaningful participation from most people? I guess too many people in the meetings?

[win311fwg]

That is likely referring to what has become known as the standup, where developers read off the commit log for the "manager" who hasn't yet figured out how to use a computer.

[whstl]

Or for the product manager too lazy to check Jira.

[pjmlp]

Never been the case for me, additionally I have always worked in shared desks or offices.